Sentences with phrase «mean score indicates»

A higher overall mean score indicates a higher level of self - compassion.

Higher mean scores indicate a stronger sense of ethnic identification.

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Huffman wrote that 70 percent of the suspicious accounts (662) had zero karma, meaning no meaningful engagement (upvotes or downvotes) from other users, while about one percent of the accounts (13) had a karma score of more than 10,000, indicating that they reached and interacted with many Reddit users by posting and commenting on the site.

On a practical level, it means coffee buyers (importers, roasters, and consumers) will have some objective benchmark (the Q coffee score) indicating the quality of the coffee, as well as the flavor profile.

That doesn't mean bettors should be blindly taking every underdog when the closing total is at least 8.5, but it does indicate the «dogs offer added value in these high - scoring games.

I think hatred is when a player plays consistently well through several games, score and assist but after one shite match, receives an article indicating that he by all means, should not play.

Every gene was assigned a score, based on previous studies, where 0 indicated that the polymorphism of this gene did not create a muscular advantage for running a marathon, 1 meant a standard level and 2 indicated that the polymorphism of the gene conferred positive properties for bearing this effort through muscles.

Test scores indicate that the strategy is working, too, but that doesn't mean all parents have been thrilled.

Using Q - LES - Q - SF scores, where higher scores on the scale indicate greater satisfaction, the mean scores improved from 3.3 to 3.7; a statistically significant difference in the positive direction.

Results of a regression analysis indicate that neither LCE alone, LSE alone, or an aggregate efficacy measure account for significant variation in the three - year mean student achievement change score.

Attending a classroom that increased test scores by one standard deviation (about 8.8 percentile points) during the initial year of the experiment was reported to increase college attendance, the quality of the college attended (as indicated by the mean adult earnings of its graduates), and earnings.

Within the U.S., how school performance is measured is with standardized test scores meant to indicate student achievement, so whether or not a school is considered to be successful or failing at educating students is based on how students at that school score.

As Figure 3 indicates, we first divided the schools in our sample into quintiles on the basis of mean annual student achievement scores.

The observed trends in both mean hip score and mean EBV over year of birth indicate that a small genetic improvement has been taking place, approximately equivalent to avoiding those dogs with the worst 15 % of scores.

While not indicating actual scores on the SDQ, the authors reported that mean scores were mostly within the normal range, but a higher range of «cases» was found for each of the difficulties subscales.

The much lower cut point for the Chinese version indicates that it would not be appropriate to directly compare mean scores on the EPDS between Western and Chinese patient samples.

Although the mean PPVT - R scores were very low, correlational analyses indicated that this test was valid for this sample in relation to maternal education, ego maturity, depression, and the HOME.49 The mean for the total HOME scores was similar to other lower SES samples assessed at 12 months in North Carolina, Texas, and Arkansas.50 Although the majority (80.2 %) of the women were classified as minimally (scores of 0 — 9) or mildly (10 — 16) depressed, 17.5 % were moderately depressed (17 — 29), and 2.0 % severely depressed (30 or higher), proportions comparable to the incidence of depression in the control group of another low SES sample.51

Descriptive analyses for PANAS indicated that total sample of adolescents obtained higher mean scores in positive affect (M = 35.27, sd = 5.74) than in negative affect (M = 25.32, sd = 6.81)(t (146) = 12.95, p < 0.001), without significant differences for classes.

A standardised mean difference of 0 indicates that both groups had similar improvements; effects of − 0.5 or − 1 indicate that 69 % or 84 % of patients in the intervention group, respectively, had greater reductions on depression scores than the average patient in the control group.

A repeated measures ANOVA indicated that the mean GAD - 7 score changed significantly precourse to postcourse (F (1.71,465.4) = 325.53, p < 0.001) 2 and post hoc tests using the Bonferroni correction revealed that GAD - 7 score also further significantly decreased at 1 month follow - up, mean difference post to follow - up 0.850, standard error 0.211, p < 0.001.

For attachment style scores, the MANCOVA for ethnicity was significant, Λ = 20.24, p <.0001; follow - up univariate analyses indicated that the mean score for security was greater for European Americans than African Americans, F (1,795) = 37.95, p <.0001.

A significant interaction term, indicating that marital quality moderates the effects of vision on the criterion variable (Baron & Kenny, 1986), was decomposed such that simple slopes were computed and tested for the relationship between vision and the quality of life indicator for respondents scoring 1 SD above and below the mean on the moderating marital quality variable (Aiken & West, 1991).

Scale scores were means across items, with higher scores indicating more problems.

Fit indices used to evaluate the model included a χ2 goodness - of - fit test (nonsignificant values indicate good fits), the comparative fit index (scores of > 0.95 indicate better fits), the root mean square error of approximation (values of < 0.05 indicate good fits), and the standardized root mean square residual (values of < 0.08 indicate good fits).43, 44 Missing values were imputed through multiple imputation by using functions in the missing data library in S - Plus (Insightful Corp, Seattle, WA).45, 46 The combined data for the cross - lagged / survival model converged more quickly with 15 imputed data sets than did the model that used a likelihood - based approach to missing data.

Other scales in the MCS measured unusual thoughts or perceptual experiences that, although more prevalent in children with neurodevelopmental disorders and those who later develop adult psychiatric illness, are nonetheless common in child populations25: a majority of children (52.2 %) responded «Certainly True» to at least one of the nine PLE items, and the high mean total scores on Perceptual Sensitivity indicated that most children also reported sensitivity to slight, low - intensity stimulation in the environment.

High mean scores also indicated most children's access to Supportive Relationships at Home, School and in the Community, and engagement with the natural environment (Connection to Nature).

Consistent with earlier findings, the mean scores for mothers» responses on the Child Behavior Checklist (externalizing and each syndrome) were comparable to those for nonreferred children reported by Achenbach and Rescorla, 25 which indicated that levels of behavioral problems for HS children were similar to those for generally healthy children.

An inspection of the mean plots (see Fig. 2) indicated that the differences in scores over time for the low CU group was smaller than the differences in scores over time for the high CU group, suggesting that the high CU group demonstrated more change (i.e., improvement) on these scales with treatment.

Results indicated pretest and posttest scores on the substance use and related problems showed slight improvements for both the SFBT and control groups based on the ASI - SR in all subscales, except for the family / relationship status subscale for control group which showed an increase in mean score and small effect size in the opposite desired direction.

Results indicated that comparison of pretest and posttest mean scores on the SF - 36 indicated significantly improved mean scores for vitality, physical effects on role functioning, emotional effects on role functioning, and mental health.

A check in the red column means that your reported score indicates a «challenge area,» whereas a check in the white or blue columns indicates a «needs improvement» or «strength» area for your relationship readiness.

Results indicate that after training, the mean percent correct score of the training group was similar to that of the nonhandicapped comparison mothers, with both significantly greater than the mean of the control group.

However, almost all of the correlations were positive, indicating that residual gains on outcome measures were associated with higher rather than lower mean WAI - S scores, except in the relation between working alliance and anxiety.

Each summary component score is standardized to have a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10 in the general population, with higher scores indicating better mental and physical health (Flynn, Smith, & Freese, 2006; Ware, Kosinski, & Keller, 1998).

Those with «high» levels were parents with a mean score of less than 3, indicating that on average, they «agreed» with the importance of teaching absolute obedience, that children should obey parents and that parents should teach children to be useful.

Measured using according to whether the mother's mean score SF - 12 (Ware et al. 1996) Health Survey mental health items measured at sweeps 1, 3 and 5 was below 1 SD of mean sample population value, indicating maternal depression.

The «high chaos» group comprised parents with a mean score of less than 4, indicating that they on average, agreed (or were ambivalent) with the notion that their home was «disorganised» and it was difficult to «hear yourself think»; and did not agree that the atmosphere was «calm».

Analysis of mean total scores between company trades indicated that masonry / stucco application companies had significantly lower scores than most other trades represented (P < 0.01).

Analysis of mean total scores indicated that companies that had received some form of safety training scored significantly higher than

Responses were averaged across items to create mean scores; higher scores indicated greater perception of maternal use of restriction.

Mothers» responses on the CFQ (12) were averaged to create a mean score (on a 5 - point Likert scale)-- higher scores indicated greater use of restriction.

Analysis of mean total scores indicated that companies that had received some form of safety training scored significantly higher than... companies that had not received any (P < 0.01).

The mean score of life stress in the present study was 8.0, indicating low levels of life stress reported in the current sample.

The KIPS item behavior descriptors allow the scores to be organized as follows to track the progress of the families enrolled in the intervention program: - Low quality - KIPS mean 1.0 - 2.9 (indicating parenting concerns)- Moderate quality - KIPS mean 3.0 - 3.9 - High quality - KIPS mean 4.0 - 5.0

Respondents» mean scores were not distributed normally, as indicated by the Shapiro — Wilk test.

Although mean symptoms scores fell in the nonclinical range, a relatively high percentage of youth were in the «high - risk» range for caregiver - reported symptoms as indicated by a t score > 60 based on general norms for the BASC.

Specifically, 25 % (N = 138) in wave 1, and 38 % (N = 208) in wave 2, had a mean score below 1.3, thereby indicating that a large group of adolescent gamers generally never experienced signs of pathological gaming.

The between - person effects indicate that as the individual mean scores increased by 1 standard deviation above the grand sample mean, this corresponded to a 44 % decrease in the odds of antisocial behavior for parental support (e b = 0.561, p < 0.001) and a 27 % increase in the odds of antisocial behavior for harsh parenting (e b = 1.274, p < 0.001).

A recent study8 examining peer status in clinically - diagnosed 7 — 9 year old children with ADHD from the Multimodal Treatment Study of Children With ADHD (MTA) 9,10 found that 52 % fell in the rejected category (when the classification system of Coie et al11 is used) and less than 1 % were of popular status.8 When children who did not fit into any category were excluded in calculating these percentages, the situation was even more bleak, with 80 % of children with ADHD falling in the rejected group.8 These figures are consistent with previous work indicating that 82 % of children with ADHD have peer rejection scores one standard deviation or more above the mean and 60 % are two standard deviations or more above the mean.12

The mean score on all items was used to generate a global score for maternal warmth, with higher scores indicating higher levels of maternal warmth.